Animalia Life

Micromonacha lanceolata
TAXONOMY
Bucco lanceolata Deville, 1849, Pampa del Sacramento, upper Ucayali River, Peru. Monotypic.
OTHER COMMON NAMES
French: Barbacou lanceolй; German: Streifen-faulvogel; Spanish: Monjita Lanceolata.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
5.1–5.9 in (13–15 cm); 0.67–0.78 oz (19–22 g). Warm brown upperparts, scaled buffy. Whitish nasal tufts and chin feathers, white loral patch (bordered black) extending across forehead. White underparts heavily streaked black, except for central belly; undertail coverts buffy. Bill black and iris brown.
DISTRIBUTION
Western Costa Rica, west-central Panama; also from southwestern Colombia to western Ecuador and west-central Colombia to northern Bolivia.
HABITAT
At all strata (but usually low down) and most often at borders of primary and secondary humid forest at 980–6,890 ft (300–2,100 m).
BEHAVIOR
Principally solitary, although pairs are probably sedentary and territorial. Usually found sitting unobtrusively at forest edges or sometimes accompanying mixed-species flocks.
FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIET
Hunts insects from perches and is known to eat berries, at least seasonally.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY
Nest is placed at end of a 16-in (40-cm) tunnel into a bank. Clutch contains two eggs; estimated incubation period 15 days.
CONSERVATION STATUS
Not threatened. Nowhere common, but widespread and thought to be secure.
SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS
None known.

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